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...Playboy photographer's Ivy League education
David Chan finds that publicity makes his job easier. Chan, 41, recruits and photographs women in various stages of undress for Playboy. He pays his models a one-time fee according to degree of deshabille: $100 clothed, $200 seminude ("topless, see-through blouse and so forth") and $400 nude ("something you wouldn't see on the beach or the street"). Organized according to categorical imperative, Chan's past work has included "Girls of the Big Ten" and "Girls of Washington." Fourteen years' experience has led him to expect his arrival in a new town to be treated...
...subject them to nonstop ranting by teams of operatives until they renounce their new faith. Warning that "there is a conspiracy to turn [the U.S.] into a totalitarian state," he stated that he has personally deprogrammed 1,600 people, ranging in age from 13 to 81. In a forthcoming Playboy interview, Patrick includes First Sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, a neoPentecostal "memory healer," on his list of cult leaders who bear watching. Another witness, Author Flo Conway, stated that deprogramming should be "recognized as a new and valuable form of mental health therapy...
When Haley (James Earl Jones) interviews him for Playboy, Brando devilishly sprays his office with disinfectant and sings racist jingles...
Though Filipacchi now spends two-thirds of his time in the U.S. and participates in all major editorial and business decisions, the man most in charge is Editor and President Robert Gutwillig, 47, a graduate of Playboy Enterprises with ten years in serious book publishing (World Publishing). "We're oriented toward middle-class Middle America," insists Gutwillig. "You won't see our editors hanging out at Elaine's." The hirings, firings and strategy shifts that kept the staff in turmoil before the first issue appeared may well continue. "This is not art," says Gutwillig firmly. "This...